France's prime minister has used special executive powers to get the 2025 budget approved without a vote by lawmakers.

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. French Prime Minister Francois Bayrou delivers his general policy ...

The vote clears the way for final approval of France’s 2025 budget, easing concerns about the country’s political turmoil — ...

The head of France's far-right National Rally party says he doesn't support a no-confidence motion filed against the ...

While the governmental instability that followed the June 9 European elections bought time for opponents of active aid in ...

Prime Minister François Bayrou broke a blockade of opposition parties that had brought down the government of his predecessor ...

Opposition parties were expected to file the no-confidence motion later Monday, and a vote is expected in the National Assembly on Wednesday. That may provide France with a budget at last ...

The French National Assembly yesterday approved Prime Minister François Bayrou’s invocation of the anti-democratic Article 49.3 of the constitution to impose a budget without a parliamentary vote.

The French parliament on Wednesday rejected ... The motion garnered only 128 votes in the National Assembly, far below the 288 needed to bring down the government. With its rejection, the state ...

The French parliament on Thursday finally adopted the state's 2025 budget following a tumultuous months-long process that saw ...

Ferrand isn’t a judge, but the former head of the French National Assembly and one of Macron’s earliest supporters. Like Ferrand, both the outgoing president of the Conseil Constitutionnel, Laurent ...

So, the French government is on the brink of collapse. Again. When Macron ordered the dissolution of the National Assembly the evening of his heavy defeat in the European elections last June ...